Re: [PATCH 01/15] run-job: create barebones builtin

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2020, 10:54 UTC
Message-ID: <806dc7e9-9980-2c05-461f-9f3a62598244@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200407005828.GC2568@danh.dev>

On 4/6/2020 8:58 PM, Danh Doan wrote:

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> On 2020-04-06 10:42:23-0400, Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Of course, not every platform has "cron" but that just means we need a
>> cross-platform way to launch Git processes on some schedule. That could
>> be a command that creates a cron job on platforms that have it, and on
> 
> There's Unix system that doesn't have cron.
> People could use other scheduler mechanism.
> 
> A lot of systemd users uses systemd-timer.
> I'm using snooze.

Thanks for listing some alternatives. I'll look into these.

> Each of those set of utilities have different grammar and
> configuration.
> 
>> Windows it could create a scheduled task instead.

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>> 2. "run-on-repos" uses command-line arguments or config to launch "git
>>    -C <dir> maintenance run" for all configured directories. The
>>    intention is that this is launched on some schedule by a platform-
>>    specific scheduling mechanism (i.e. cron).
> 
> So, IIUC, Git will have a _hard_ dependencies on cron on *nix?
> Else, we're gonna received a bug-report that some tools doesn't work?

No. Such a dependency would be unacceptable. I'm just using cron
as an example when available.

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> I've seen some bug report in our distro that "git add -p" doesn't work
> like documented, because it's in "git-perl" packages.
> When we merge "git-perl" back to git, other people (who never use
> "git add -p" and git-sendemail) complain why does we add a hard dependencies
> on perl to git.

Good news: "git add -p" is becoming a builtin with a lot of work by some determined contributors.

Thanks, -Stolee